Outline for Monday 15 October 2007:

Perils of Growth: Stratified Communities and Circumscribed Lives

1. Deconstructing Roundtable #1 (Positives & Improvements) & preparations for Roundtable #2

2. Discussion: Salisbury Text3. Discussion: How did the Concept of Race Slavery Evolve, 1650-

1750? a. South Atlantic system & implications for North Americab. Map Analysis/geography of racialized slaveryc. Primary source analysis:

1. Olaudah Equiano (voices, p. 80)2. Gov. Joseph Dudley & John Winchester (voices, p. 93)

4. Before Next Meeting: Review online module “The Stono Rebellion” and Henretta, pp. 76-98; Zabin, pp. 1-74

Week #4 Readings: Henretta, pp. 76-98; Zabin, pp. 1-74; Critical Thinking Module, “The Stono Rebellion”

Discussion Themes: • How did the concept of race slavery evolve between 1650 and

1750? • How did slavery compare with indentured servitude and how did

gender and race affect how people experienced life under these systems?

• How did the British imperial system affect how people acquired wealth and who wielded power in North America?

• How did race slavery affect notions of justice and legal authority within the British colonies in North America?

Voices: Olaudah Equiano (The Atlantic World, ca. 1760s), Joseph Dudley and John Winchester (Massachussetts, ca 1700s), Commons House (South Carolina, 1739), William Bull (SC, 1739), Legislative Code (SC, 1740), Daniel Horsmanden (NY, ca. 1740s)

Joseph Capen HousePicture Research Consultants & Archives

This substantial house was built in 1683 for Joseph Capen, a Harvard graduate who had recently arrived in Topsfield, Massachusetts, to serve as the local minister. The town granted Capen twelve acres for a homesite, and he probably paid for the house with the dowry of his new wife, Priscilla Appleton, the daughter of a wealthy colonist in nearby Ipswich, Massachusetts.

Deconstructing Roundtable #1

Imperial Conflicts as Context for understanding Rowlandson’s experience (see Henretta, 38-53, 59-76)

• Implications of English conquest of New Netherlands (1664)?

• Legacies of Dutch-Iroquois alliance (1630s-1660s)Iroquois re-alignment with New France after 1660sEnglish-French relations in 1670s—1713

• What caused Metacom’s War? Background causes & context? (see Salisbury, pp. 1-55)Precipitating cause/events? (see Salisbury, p. 21)

• Crisis decade of 1675-1680s:– Metacom’s War (1675)– Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)– Pueblo Revolt (1680)– Iroquois campaigns (1670s-1680s)

• What accounts for the surge of popular unrest in this decade, continent-wide?

• What was the legacy of this decade of popular unrest for subsequent colonial initiatives– how did imperial authorities respond? (King

William’s War of 1689-1697?)– How did Native American peoples adjust?– How did colonial expectations change?

• How did Metacom’s War affect Puritan ideas about race and identity?

• Why was Lancaster targeted for a raid? The Rowlandson garrison house?

• Why does the editor consider Mary Rowlandson’s servant significant? (pp. 50-51)?

• Why was Rowlandson captured? Why was her narrative so popular?

• Why don’t we have narratives describing the experiences of Native people in captivity?

• How did the title of the English version differ from the New England version & why?

• How does Rowlandson’s narrative compare with Hannah Dustin’s narrative?

What was the most enduring legacy of Metacom’s War?

The Century of Imperial Wars• King William’s War (1689-1697; War of the League

of Augsburg—Britain vs France, Spain, Austria)• Queen Anne’s War (1702-1713; War of the Spanish

Succession—Britain vs France and Spain)• Treaty of Utrecht (Hudson’s Bay, Nova

Scotia/Acadia, & Newfoundland to British)• War of Jenkins’s Ear (1739-1741; English seek

markets in Spanish America—Walpole’s policy of trade expansion)

• King George’s War (1740-1748; Capture & return of Louisbourg)

• French and Indian War (Seven Years War, 1753-1763)

• American Revolution (1775-1783)

This Week: How did the Concept of Race Slavery Evolve, 1650-1750?

• How did the British Imperial System affect how people acquired wealth and who wielded power in North America

– see Timeline, (p. 97)– see Map 3.1 (p. 76)– see Map 3.3 (p. 89)

• How did race and gender affect how people experienced life under indentured servitude and slavery?

• What was the South Atlantic system and how did it affect labor systems in North America?

– What evidence suggests that race slavery was a conscious choice?– What alternatives did people have to race slavery and how did that

change after 1700?– How did the South Atlantic system affect the priorities of planters in

southern colonies?– How did American smuggling affect British Imperial plans (why

smuggle & with whom?)

• How did indentured servitude change, 1650-1750?

– Implications of the First Navigation Act (1651)– Implications of Carolina Proprietorship (1663)– Implications of William Penn’s grant (1681)

• How did changes in indentured servitude affect the system of Race Slavery?

– Relative costs/benefits of slavery vs indenture for landowner

– German (“Pennsylvania Dutch” immigration, 1690s-1740s)

– Ethnic vs racial boundaries and indenture system

• How did race slavery affect notions of justice and legal authority within the British colonies in North America?

– case study of Olaudah Equiano (Voices, p. 80)—surviving slavery to freedom

– the Henretta text argues that American slavery fostered a uniquely African American culture:

• what factors encouraged the emergence of this African American slave culture?

• What are some negative consequences of the relatively dispersed population of slaves? Positive?

– case study of Governor Joseph Dudley and John Winchester (Voices, p. 93)—deference & resistance

• Note that these voices are in the context of a trial charging (whom?)

• What happened to Winchester & Trowbridge? (verdict?)

Before Next Meeting (Wednesday)• Review online module “The Stono Rebellion” :

How did the uprising affect race relations in Carolinas? http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/historymodules/modules/mod04/frameset.htm

• Review Henretta, pp. 76-98• Read Zabin, pp. 1-74 • Review themes for Week 4 and for Roundtable #2• Meet with Roundtable panelists if you are on

Roundtable #2